atheist
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Akhand said he would handle the legal side, but it was up to the undercover reporter to choose whether he wanted to pretend to be gay, an atheist or a political activist.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Lou assumes her husband is an atheist and doesn’t understand when she discovers a Bible in the house.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025
China's officially atheist government has been wary of organized movements outside its control, and the country's Christians had been split among those attending unofficial "house" or "underground" churches and those visiting government-sanctioned places of worship.
From Barron's • Nov. 3, 2025
Officially, the Communist Party is atheist, with the only legal churches in China being those sanctioned by the state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain’s job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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